Re: [gentoo-user] Re: copy file and preserve ownership

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 09/18/14 02:14, Jouni Kosonen wrote:
>Joseph wrote:
>
>> I like to use meld to copy file but meld does now preserve ownership of
>> the file that it copy. rsyc does but how do I use rysnc to copy let say
>> file that are newer then certain date ?
>>
>> I was trying to use:
>> find /home/myuser/oldir/* -mtime -60 -exec cp {} /home/myuser/newdir/ \;
>>
>> but cp does not preserve file ownership either.
>>
>> I was planning on copying hylafax-files (faxes) from one server to another
>> and most of those files have ownership "uucp:60002 or "uucp:uucp"
>>
>
>From "man cp":
>...
>
>       -p     same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps
>
>       --preserve[=ATTR_LIST]
>              preserve the specified attributes (default: mode,ownership,
>              timestamps), if possible additional attributes: context,
>              links, xattr, all
>
>
>Might I suggest a pattern here? ;-)
>---
>Jouni

Thank, missed that :-/

-- 
Joseph